On July 4th, 2006, I embarked on a quest to become the pre-eminent American portrait painter of the 21st century. This blog chronicles that journey. With apologies to Joan Didion, I call it THE YEAR OF MAGICAL PAINTING.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Bit of a breakthrough...

If you scroll down about three posts you can see the picture of Marlon Brando as The Godfather. In that post I go on to suggest that, although I always thought the line read "Look what they done to my boy", it was really "Look how they massacred my boy."

Fuck Sonny, by the way. I always thought he was an asshole.

But back to the matter at hand: After much reflection, I think the line that Brando actually said in the movie is "Look how they messed with my boy"--perhaps an ad lib from the script that used "massacred" instead.